PSA

Topic: Cyberbullying

Cyber bullying has not always been such an important issue. The creation of cell phones, emails and social networking sites have allowed cyber bullying to flourish. The amount of children creating facebook or formspring accounts are growing and so are the amount of children being bullied. Children and teens are taking advantage of facebook, formspring, twitter and email to bully their classmates or even complete strangers. More than 1 in 3 kids have experienced cyber threats. Many have said it happened more than once. Over half of cyber bullying victims do not tell their parents or anyone else that they are being bullied. Roughly around 30,000 kids have committed suicide because they have been cyber bullied. These statistics are eye opening and everyone needs to become aware. If people know what is going on, these statistics can dwindle down. If you know anyone who is being bullied or if you yourself is experiencing this, call the National Bullying Helpline at 01380-729476.

Andy Warhol

·         Real name is Andrew Warhola (8/6/28-2/22/87) (Became Warhol after a misprint)

o   Born in Pittsburgh, PA, Parents from Czechoslovakia (does not exist anymore)

o   Father worked in a coal mine

·         In High School, kicked out of art club because he was “too good”

·         Graduated from the Carnegie Institute of Technology (Bachelor of Fine Arts)

·         Graduated with degree for pictorial design & wanted to become a commercial illustrator

·         Designed advertisements for women’s shoes

·         Used Polaroid camera

·         Fear of hospitals and doctors, hypochondriac

·         Favorite print making technique was silk screening

·         Friends & family described him as a workaholic

·         His sexuality was speculated upon and how this influenced his relationship to art is “a major subject of scholarship on the artist”

·         First solo expedition in 1952

·         Coined the term “15 minutes of fame”

·         1960s: iconic American products (pop art)

·         Created The Factory, his NYC studio from 1962-1968

·         Celebrity portraits developed into one of the most important aspects of his career

·         Made films (first one called Sleep – 6 hours of a man sleeping) (1963)

·         1965 said he was retiring from painting

o   1972 returned to painting

·         Designed cover for the Rolling Stones’ album Sticky Fingers (cover made out of real jean material)

·         Produced Velvet Underground’s first album

·         Started a magazine called Interview, worked for Glamour Magazine, Vogue

·         Shot by Valerie Solanas 3 times for being abusive and “too controlling” (6/3/68)

o   Solanas authored the S.C.U.M. Manifesto, a separatist feminist document

o   "Before I was shot, I always thought that I was more half-there than all-there – I always suspected that I was watching TV instead of living life. People sometimes say that the way things happen in movies is unreal, but actually it's the way things happen in life that's unreal. The movies make emotions look so strong and real, whereas when things really do happen to you, it's like watching television – you don't feel anything. Right when I was being shot and ever since, I knew that I was watching television. The channels switch, but it's all television."

·         Marilyn Monroe = favorite model (not painted until after death)

·         Wore silver wigs until he dyed his hair silver

·         Practicing Ruthenian Rite Catholic who described himself as a religious person

·         Died of a heart attack brought on by a gall bladder surgery and water intoxication

·         $100,000,000 for one of his paintings (highest amount paid) (“Eight Elvises”)

·         Referred to as the “Prince of Pop”

Extra Credit-Photoshop (blending)

Before creating this final product, I chose two different pictures. One was a shot of the girls in blue and another was a shot of Jana and Jenna holding hands and looking back at the camera. I chose the girls in blue to be my target picture. I then made another background layer. After that, I clicked on image and then apply image. In the source vs. target image, I chose the picture of Jana and Jenna. Under types of of layer blends, I chose soft light. Once the images were blended. I used the poster edges filter to add more effect.

Photoshop Reflection: "K2 in SF"

To create this photo, I used several techniques that I recently learned in Photoshop. Before starting, I chose two separate photographs. I took a picture of the Kairos 2 team and another picture of Crissy Field in San Francisco. The K2 picture was originally taken outside of the Presentation Center. The Crissy field picture was empty. I used the magnetic lasso tool to cut out the people in the Kairos photo. I then copy and pasted it to the Crissy field picture. I used the free transform tool to maneuver the picture of the leaders and make them a proportionate size to the background. I then used the eraser tool to erase any background left from the Kairos original picture. For example, there were patches of green grass around the people’s feet so I used the eraser tool to take that out. The tool erases things from the original and leaves the background to make it look more realistic.

                After cleaning the photo up, I used the edge burn technique. I created four new layers and selected black as my background color. I unchecked all of the boxes on each layer except for the layer I was working with. Using the gradient tool, I added gradient to one corner per layer. I also made sure that each layer had multiply selected.  After adding gradient, I made sure all boxes were checked. Once the edge burns were put on, I changed the filter.  I used the film grain artistic filter for the background and the poster edge filter for the people. In addition, I changed the brightness and contrast of the sky. I changed the brightness of the sky to have less clouds and look more like a foggy day rather than sunny.

Little toy

Photo shop techniques

copy/paste

Blended

Little toy

Black and White Edits using Photoshop

True Black and White

Black White Color Filter

Black White Color Emphasis

Fisheye

Landscape Assignment

These photos were taken in San Francisco and at the State Capitol in Sacramento.

Abstract

Big Shot- unedited

Big Shot-Photoshop

Detail

Architecture Assignment

Location 1-Big Picture

Location 2-Details

Location 3-Big Picture

Location 3-Details

Location 3-Interior

Landscape Photographer Biographies

Ansel Adams

• 1902-1984
• best known for black and whites
• primarily shot yosemite
• born in SF
• kodak brownie= first camera
• founded group with Edward Weston and Imogen Cunningham (f/64)
• led to the Museum of Modern Art's Photography Dept.
• used small aperatures and long exposures
• "pure photography"
• Jimmy Carter- called on Adams to take the first portrait of a president

^In this photo, Adams uses the river to lead viewers' eyes to the mountains. Although black and white, the snow stands out even more which adds more to the photo.

Heidi Kirkpatrick

• uses a Holga camera to capture most of her shots
• Born in Ohio
• Based in Portland, Oregon
• Photography instructor
• Head of photographic education at Safelight Darkroom
• work depicts the view of the world based on a woman
• developes her own images
• ex. silver gelatin

This photo depicts a lot of line which also provides pattern. At first, the photo is kind of abstract because you dont really know what the photo is of.

Landscape notes (202- 217)

Landscape- Thinking Artistically

• most important aspect= composition
• viewpoint --> positioning of camera
• explore all variations when shooting
• move camera around (ex. left, right, up, down)
• balance between unity and variety
• use line to draw viewer's attention
• pattern- repetition

Settings

• f/16, f/22, f/32
• f/64 is the smallest
• smaller f stop gives a greater depth of field
• lighting
• before sunrise or sunset
• angle of sun is low which emphasizes shapes and textures
• fluorescent =greener
• daylight= more blue
• quartz= yellow
• film
• 100 ISO film (35 mm)
• slower film= most detail
• bigger negative the more it will capture
• color emphasizes color and setting
• black and white emphasizes shapes, values and textures
• lenses
• wide angle lense
• close and distant objects in shots
• filters
• red filter- contrast
• yellow- brings out clouds
• polarizer= darkens blue sky
• brings out textures

• use a tripod for support
• grand view for outdoor photos
• parks are good locations
• national, state or city
• shadows- line, shape, value

Details

• sunny days can be bad
• light meters
• abstracted element
• composed of lines, values, shapes and textures
• more abstract

Interior

• everything in focus
• as close as 4 ft. or as far as 20 ft.
• use a tri pod (slower shutter speed)

Chapter 8 Notes-Architecture and Urban Landscapes

• indirect portraits
• materials, style and scale --> provide clues/ sense of where they came from &who created them
• architecture good for early films
• Frederick H. Evans- reknowned architectural photographer
• worked in primarily platinum papers
• gave up photography b/c platinum papers were mainly used only for war
• pattern and repetition
• Ezra Stoller
• influential
• used line, shape and light
• orginally an architect
• uses black and white to emphasize shape of building
• full view of space and emotions connected to it
• focus on details of a building
• communicate the personality of the space and its relationship to its surroundings

Blog notes 179-197

Architectual photography

• use corner of a room, curve of walkway or stairway
• capture vertical and horizontal lines at the edge of a building
• observe space surrounding the object
• pay attention to patterns
• bricks
• carpet
• wallpaper
• windows
• Lense/Film/Camera Settings
• small f-stop- greater depth
• bigger format
• bigger negative-better detail
• slower film
• color films
• emphasize color and setting
• Black/White
• emphasize value, shapes and textures
• lighting
• color of lighting is important in interior architectual photography
• wide angle lenses
• black and white filters-include sky and clouds
• closer you get- more distortion in photo --> step back & capture whole building
• to create 3D- take from the side
• Architectural elements:
• door
• set of steps
• top of a column
• carved ornaments
• bricks

American Photography Notes

1. Illustrated News- first publication
2. Front cover: immediate appeal to attract attention
3. Hidden photography to get big news
4. Photographs used for advertising- people believed photographs and bought the products
5. "Camera can elevate the most lowly object and make it seem elegant"
6. Advertisements were organized around photography
7. Photography added to fame- "media celebrity" ; stars become more famous depending on how good they look in photographs; invented stars
8. Photography used to photograph space: planets, meteors, etc.
9. What the human eye sees cannot compare with what a photograph can bring out
10. Photography evolved greatly and influenced the world